The "Mendel syndrome" in science: durability of scientific literature and its effects on bibliometric analysis of individual scientists.

Scientometrics · 2011 · PMC3171665 · PMID 21957319

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In 1979 , Garfield suggested the existence of a kind of “Mendel syndrome” in science related with the “inability of citation counts to identify premature discoveries—work that is highly significant but so far ahead of the field that it goes unnoticed”.

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